The LA Times reported on May 1 the results of a study to compare
two drugs designed to save lives of heart attack victims by clearing
blocked arteries. One was an old drug called Streptokinase (costs an
average of $200a dose) and the other a new drug called t-PA (costs
an average of $2,200 a dose. The results of the study are described
as follows: The study looked at 41,000 heart attack victims in 15
countries. They looked at deaths and strokes after 30 days with the
following treatments:

The debate over which drug is more effective has gone on for some
time. Previous studies had showed little difference between the two
drugs. Newspaper accounts report that researchers `have settled the
long-running controversy' Do you feel that this statement is
justified? If so why, if not why not?

There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about the use of
SAT scores to predict college performance and in particular as it
might differ for men and women. Nationally, on a scale of 200 to
800, male college-bound seniors average 9 points higher on the
verbal section and 43 points higher on the math section than female
college-bound seniors. It has been claimed that despite the lower
SAT scores, women do as well as or better than men in college work.
This has led people to claim that SAT scores underpredict the
achievement of women in College. There have been a number of
studies to investigate this claim. You will find on gopher in the
folder `SAT bias' that is in `Chance documents for general use' data
desk data sets that illustrate the kind of data that has been used in
this investigation. The `ETS evaluation data' is the data for one
particular school in a large study done by ETS involving many
schools. The Elliott-Strenta data is the data from a study carried out
at Dartmouth studying psychology majors at Dartmouth. The course
files give the SAT scores and grades of students at Dartmouth in
three of the large introductory courses: Math3 (Calculus), English
5(writing), and Economics 1 (Introductory Economics). Using any of
this data you want to, see what conclusions you can come to about
the possible underprediction of SAT scores for women.